Advanced Optoelectronic Components for All-Optical Networks.

摘要

Under APOSR Grant F49620-96-1-0126, 'Advanced Optoelectronic Components for All-Optical Networks', we have worked to develop key technologies and components to substantially improve the performance, and potentially lower the cost, of future optical networks. Our multidisciplinary team comprised MIT faculty and research staff whose collective expertise spans optical materials, optical component fabrication, ultrafast optics, optical communications, and network architecture. The specific objectives of our program were to: (1) develop key technology components for all-optical networks that employ time- division multiplexing (TDM); (2) develop key technology components for all- optical networks that employ wavelength division multiplexing (WDM); (3) perform ancillary studies of noise behavior, dispersion management, and other issues relevant to all-optical networks. In this final report we briefly summarize our accomplishments over the entire grant period, 1 April 1996 through 15 January 2002. Many additional details can be found in our annual progress reports, and all our work has been extensively documented in archival journals (see Publications, below).